Château Gaby

The Canon-Fronsac that made the collection famous, with tobacco, iron, and a 94 from Forbes.

The 2014 Château Gaby is the estate’s grand vin in the vintage that still anchors the U.S. shop: succulent on the nose before you ever taste it. Black cherry, sweet tobacco, vanilla bean, then iron and salt. Those notes cross onto the palate, where tannic grip adds a bitter, clay-like edge that the maison says will unfold with time.

Forbes scores it 94 points among Bordeaux Right Bank reds — the number is printed on the official bottle portrait. The estate note from the shop places the wine with Tom Sullivan in Canon-Fronsac: earth, green grass, gorse, red fruit, full body, still young when the note was written, fruit and structure in balance.

The same label has traveled. The shop publishes stills of Gaby in Billions, Elsbeth, and You. That is not an accident of set dressing. It is what happens when a Canon-Fronsac looks like a classified growth and tastes like somewhere specific. Six bottles ship free inside the offer on vsatsr.com.